Risk Taking and Decision Making
Subtitle: Foreign Military Intervention Decisions
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: March 1, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780804727471
Subjects: International relations; Peacekeeping operations; Politics / Current Events; Intervention (International law); International Relations (Specific Aspects); Military Policy; Risk-taking (Psychology); Political Science; Politics - Current Events; Politics/International Relations; General; Military Science; Technology / Military Science; International Relations - General; Decision making; Intervention (International la
First sentence: Although the concept of risk and its behavioral implications have been singled out for extensive social scientific research in a broad range of fields-including medicine, economics, industry, technology, and environmental studies-it has largely gone unnoticed in the field of international politics and specifically in the study of international security issues, where risk is perennial and its consequences are visible and critical.